A powerful Strings Sample Library for Kontakt Player

CSS features a Hollywood-style string section, recorded in position in Australias premiere scoring stage - Trackdown. From the soaring colourful vibrato of the high violins to the dark and woody textures of the low cello and bass notes, youll be instantly inspired. The aim was to create an instrument thats instantly playable, sounds great out-of-the-box and is backed up by speedy customer support.

Groundbreaking Interface

At the heart of CSS is its cutting edge GUI, building on our previous critically-acclaimed library Cinematic Strings 2. This means a short-but-sweet patch list, easily assignable keyswitches and MIDI CCs, and a full mixer with output routing options plus reverb. These features and many others are all accessible via the main GUI page, you'll have CSS working alongside you on your latest project within minutes.

Realistic and Expressive

CSS features a stunningly realistic legato engine. We painstakingly recorded true legato transitions for each note, up and down, including a beautiful portamento. We also recorded 're-bow' samples, meaning you can play repeated legato notes smoothly and with true-legato realism. For more information please check out the Legato Introduction video in the Videos section below.

Live Sound, no Reverb Required

With smooth legato, punchy spiccatos, inspiring textural harmonics and con sordino, CSS covers a wide range of the sound palette afforded by a world-class string section. Weve kept an authentic, human element in the sound, so youll feel like youre at a live session. With this new level of realism, youll feel comfortable using CSS without reverb, in fact we recommend it! All of our demos were created without reverb - all you hear is the natural air captured in the samples.

Fully mixed - Load and Play

We used a variety of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones to record CSS at three distances, which you can combine to create your own unique mix either inside Kontakt or via the newly included output-routing option. Alternatively, you can use our pre-mixed combination of all 3 if you want a great sound with fewer resources. Full and Lite Ensemble patches optimise workflow and are perfect for sketching or filling out a track.

Articulations

Legato, including legato repetition and portamento

spiccato

staccatissimo

staccato

sforzando

pizzicato, including bartok snaps

col legno

harmonics

tremolo

trills (half and whole tone)

measured tremolo (tremolo sync and free sync)

marcato/fast runs

con sordino emulation (whole library)

Cinematic Studio Strings is fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player, and will work as a standalone product with no need to purchase additional software. CSS is also designed for use with the new exciting range of NKS Keyboards.
Library size ca. 32 GB

Q: Can I use the included Kontakt Player for playing other libraries in Kontakt format (.nki plus .wav files)?A: No, they only work in a 15 minutes demo mode
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Q: When trying to "Add Library" my Kontakt shows a message "No Library found"A: Then this is not a protected Kontakt library, but an open Kontakt format. You can find additional hints for Kontakt Libraries in that Sounds & Gear Video

Product activation:
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